foo on patrol wrote:And you are supposed to do what when racing, other than blow it into your hand and wipe it down you your knicks?

Foo

I've got pretty good at the bush hanky using thumb and forefinger and catching it in my hand. If there is enough there I can sometimes hear the slap as it hits the road when I flick it down near my pedals.Other than that wait til you are at the back of the paceline or on your knicks as you say. Nothing worse than a face full of someone elses snot.

In a group I just suck it up and spit it out... No way I am going to back of a 80 person "file indienne"... I just do it in my glove if i wear them.What do you do in tt's?... Not that easy to lift a hand up when in aero mode... I have just been snotting down the front of myself... Everything goes in the wash anyway .

It is in the cold where my nose runs and the tt's were held in summer in Mildura. Usually a bit of spit, phlegm and lung matter drooling out the corners of my mouth by the end but haven't had a worry with snot. Awipe with the back of the hand is about the best I can manage.I wish more people would snot in their hands in bunch rides there is quite often one who seems to insist on spraying it everywhere.

I was overtaken yesterday by a pest poison spraying ute. Not actively spraying, but I could smell it for the next few hundred meters. Holding breath while riding could be viewed as an unhealthy practice.

g-boaf wrote:But my pet hate is the old Hiace with the uniquely Toyota stinky exhaust

And the unique to Hiace "BLERRRRRR!!!" moan everytime they change gear. There's one that lives down the road from my place and i can always hear it coming, "vrrrrrmmm BLERRRRRR vrrrrrmmmm BLERRRRRR!!!!".

I've never been on a bunch ride yet where someone who needed to launch a snot rocket didn't swing WAY off to one side before doing so.

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments- Elizabeth West.

Over the weekend, a father and two kids, all on bikes, all with helmets, waiting to cross a buys side street in Zetland. all good, father spending time with kids, all getting healthy, etc, etc. Problem was, the side street was very busy, including some heavy trucks and they were waiting to cross through the middle of traffic. Nothing too wrong in that, problem was one of the kids was under 10, so, in an emergency no chance they could move fast enough to get out of the way. Too make it worse, they were only 15m from a set of lights.

IR8naml wrote:I am over the macho cyclist who has to demonstrate the repulsive act of showing the person behind them how much crap they can blow from their nasal cavities, which if you’re lucky, when the wind is right the expulsion violently splatters onto the perusing cyclist face.

Seriously, you people need to learn some manners.

And you are supposed to do what when racing, other than blow it into your hand and wipe it down you your knicks?

Foo

How about stopping, taking out a hanky/tissue and having a good blow. Only takes seconds.I usually find the nasal gunk stops after one clean-out.

IR8naml wrote:I am over the macho cyclist who has to demonstrate the repulsive act of showing the person behind them how much crap they can blow from their nasal cavities, which if you’re lucky, when the wind is right the expulsion violently splatters onto the perusing cyclist face.

Seriously, you people need to learn some manners.

And you are supposed to do what when racing, other than blow it into your hand and wipe it down you your knicks?

Foo

How about stopping, taking out a hanky/tissue and having a good blow. Only takes seconds.I usually find the nasal gunk stops after one clean-out.

Lucky you. In colder weather, my nose needs flushing every 5 minutes or so, and it's just not practical to stop that often.

IR8naml wrote:I am over the macho cyclist who has to demonstrate the repulsive act of showing the person behind them how much crap they can blow from their nasal cavities, which if you’re lucky, when the wind is right the expulsion violently splatters onto the perusing cyclist face.

Seriously, you people need to learn some manners.

And you are supposed to do what when racing, other than blow it into your hand and wipe it down you your knicks?

Foo

How about stopping, taking out a hanky/tissue and having a good blow. Only takes seconds.I usually find the nasal gunk stops after one clean-out.